Canaanite

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A member of a Semitic people inhabiting Canaan from late prehistoric times and who were conquered by the Israelites around 1000 B.C.

n. The Semitic language of the Canaanites.

adj. Of or relating to ancient Canaan or its people, language, or culture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

proper n. An ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.

proper n. A subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, and Philistines.

n. A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.

n. A zealot or fanatic.

n. A member of the Canaanism movement.

adj. Of or pertaining to the people or language of Canaan.

adj. Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers; Canaanitic

adj. zealous or fanatical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

n. A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

n. A zealot.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A descendant of Canaan, son of Ham (Gen. x. 15-19); more generally, one of the primitive inhabitants of the land of Canaan, named from him, lying between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and included in modern Palestine.

n. A title of one of the twelve apostles (“Simon the Canaanite,” Mat: x. 4), called elsewhere (Luke vi. 15, Acts i. 13) Zelotes, that is, the zealot: it is a transliteration of an Aramaic word signifying zeal, or a zealot.

Likewise Deut. 23: 17-18 must be pruned from the list, since it most likely refers to a heterosexual prostitute involved in Canaanite fertility rites that have infiltrated Jewish worship; the King James Version inaccurately labeled him a "sodomite."

His namesake, the other Simon, was termed the Canaanite, and also Zelotes, [38: 7] or the zealot -- a title expressive, in all likelihood, of the zeal and earnestness with which he was wont to carry out his principles.